IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/cup/utilit/v20y2008i01p21-49_00.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Happiness, the Self and Human Flourishing

Author

Listed:
  • HAYBRON, DANIEL M.

Abstract

The psychological condition of happiness is normally considered a paradigm subjective good, and is closely associated with subjectivist accounts of well-being. This article argues that the value of happiness is best accounted for by a non-subjectivist approach to welfare: a eudaimonistic account that grounds well-being in the fulfillment of our natures, specifically in self-fulfillment. And self-fulfillment consists partly in authentic happiness. A major reason for this is that happiness, conceived in terms of emotional state, bears a special relationship to the self. These arguments also point to a more sentimentalist approach to well-being than one finds in most contemporary accounts, particularly among Aristotelian forms of eudaimonism.

Suggested Citation

  • Haybron, Daniel M., 2008. "Happiness, the Self and Human Flourishing," Utilitas, Cambridge University Press, vol. 20(1), pages 21-49, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:utilit:v:20:y:2008:i:01:p:21-49_00
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0953820807002889/type/journal_article
    File Function: link to article abstract page
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Kuppelwieser, Volker G. & Finsterwalder, Jörg, 2016. "Transformative service research and service dominant logic: Quo Vaditis?," Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, Elsevier, vol. 28(C), pages 91-98.
    2. Veronika Huta & Alan Waterman, 2014. "Eudaimonia and Its Distinction from Hedonia: Developing a Classification and Terminology for Understanding Conceptual and Operational Definitions," Journal of Happiness Studies, Springer, vol. 15(6), pages 1425-1456, December.
    3. Atzmueller, Martin & Kolkman, Daan & Liebregts, Werner & Haring, Arjan, 2018. "Towards estimating happiness using social sensing : Perspectives on organizational social network analysis," Other publications TiSEM 530b747c-a4d5-478a-b6a2-d, Tilburg University, School of Economics and Management.
    4. Daniel M. Haybron, 2020. "Biographical Sketch for Haybron," Applied Research in Quality of Life, Springer;International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies, vol. 15(2), pages 615-618, April.
    5. Ulpiana Kocollari & Maddalena Cavicchioli & Fabio Demaria, 2024. "The 5 E(lements) of employee‐centric corporate social responsibility and their stimulus on happiness at work: An empirical investigation," Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 31(3), pages 1959-1976, May.
    6. Lamberton, Geoffrey, 2015. "Accounting and happiness," CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON ACCOUNTING, Elsevier, vol. 29(C), pages 16-30.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:cup:utilit:v:20:y:2008:i:01:p:21-49_00. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Kirk Stebbing (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.cambridge.org/uti .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.